Why I fled Pakistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment
In May 2006, at the age of 23, I joined the Daily Times, Pakistan’s most liberal English-language newspaper, as a bureau chief. I was perhaps the youngest bureau chief to cover the country’s largest province, Baluchistan, and its longstanding, deadly insurgency. I covered fierce military operations, daily bomb blasts, rocket attacks, enforced disappearances, torture of … Read more
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Shooting the Messenger
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on November 8, 2011 · 1 Comment
The gory list of Baloch journalists being brutally killed presumably by the Pakistani intelligence agencies continues to increase with the latest brutal murder of Javed Naseer Rind. A former deputy editor of Urdu-language newspaper, Daily Tawar, and an articulate columnist, Rind was indeed a smart and professional journalist whose services and bold columns will be … Read more
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Baloch journalist under terrorism charges
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on December 17, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Baloch Hal Editorial December 17th, 2009 By Malik Siraj Akbar Implicating political opponents and dissenting journalists in cases of ’sedition’ and ‘terrorism’ are two old-fashioned but regular tactics applied by governments. Such tools have been applied across the world, mainly in repressive regimes, in an effort to muzzle nonconforming opinion and put the key … Read more
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DAY 4: FC’s attack on Balochistan’s fearless Press
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on August 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar Following the forced closure of Daily Aassap, FC troops had laid a siege of the offices of Daily Balochistan Express and Daily Azadi, two prominent independent newspapers from this backward Province of Balochistan. It is the fourth consecutive day that the FC troops laid the siege, checking and intimidating the staff … Read more
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DAY 3: Khakis Press, Repress, Suppress
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on August 23, 2009 · 3 Comments
By Malik Siraj Akbar The Frontier Corps (FC) personnel continued the siege of the offices of Daily Balochistan Express and Daily Azadi on the third consecutive day on Friday. The siege included body search and intense questioning of the newspapers’ staff members on their arrival at and departure from the office. They had blocked the … Read more
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